I LOVE YOUR NUDITY
... R.DALTON
D E S N U D A
36 years after the
murder of
Roque Dalton
Nude
I love your nudity
because naked you drink me with pores,
how does the water
when I enter your walls.
Your nakedness knocks down the limits with its heat,
It opens all the doors for me to guess,
he takes me by the hand like a lost child
that you left your age and your questions quiet.
Your sweet, brackish skin that I breathe and sip
it becomes my universe, the creed that is nourished;
the aromatic lamp that I raise being blind
when, next to the shadows, the desires bark at me.
When you undress me with your eyes closed
you fit in a neighbor cup of my tongue,
you fit between my hands like the necessary bread,
you fit under my body more complete than its shadow.
The day you die, I'll bury you naked
to cleanse your distribution on earth,
to be able to kiss your skin on the roads,
braid in each river the scattered hairs.
The day you die, I'll bury you naked,
Like when you were born again between my legs.
Roque Dalton
